When the anchor is hove home, it is 'sighted and clear' at the point when the anchor crown shackle breaks the surface of the water. A prudent officer would not consider that the anchor is clear until he sees that the flukes are clear. On the same basis an officer in charge of an anchor party tends not to ring anchor aweigh until he sees t [..]

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The anchor is said to be 'A-Weigh' when it breaks out of the ground and clear of the sea bed.

Anchor buoy is used to indicate the position of the ship's anchor when on the bottom.

The term used to a hawser or rope when it is attached to the anchor and used as a temporary cable.

A vessel is said to be brought up when her way has stopped and she is riding to her anchor, with the anchor holding. The terms 'come to' and 'got her cable' are sometimes used to mean the same thing. The officer in charge of an anchor party will know when the vessel is brought up, by the cable rising up from the surface towards [..]

Occurs when the cables are fouled as in foul hawse, when the ship has swung through 180° a cross being formed with the two cables

Occurs when the cables are fouled as in 'foul hawse'. When the ship has swung through 360°, an elbow is formed in the anchor cables

The term used to describe the anchor when it has become caught on an underwater obstruction. The flukes of the anchor often become fouled by an old hawser or cable, obstructing its normal use.

This term is used to describe the crossing of the anchor cables, when both cables are being used at the same time, as with a running, standing or open moor, owing to the uncontrolled swinging of the vessel when anchored with both anchors (moored).